The High Priestess

Major Arcana, 2 — from The 1909 London Deck.

Upright

patience, what is not yet said, inner knowing

There is more going on than you have been told, and it is not time yet. The High Priestess sits between the pillars and does not explain. Your own sense of the situation is worth more here than any advice you could ask for.

In a yes or no reading, The High Priestess upright answers maybe — the situation has not settled.

Reversed

ignored instinct, secrets, surface answers

You know something you are declining to know. Either that, or you are taking a situation at face value when the face is not the whole of it. Sit with it a little longer.

In a yes or no reading, The High Priestess reversed answers maybe — the situation has not settled.

What this card does in a reading here

A reading draws one card and answers the question you asked with it. The High Priestess can come up either way up — reversals are on in this deck, because the 1909 original was drawn with them in mind — and the two readings above are the starting point, not the answer. The answer depends on what you asked.

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